Page 20 goals that are identical or otherwise, or interlinked by one or several processing official(s). 9) Person concerned means any physical person that is the subject of personal data processing. 10) Direct prospection means any solicitation carried out through message dispatch, regardless of the message base or nature, especially messages of commercial, political or charitable nature, designed to promote, directly or indirectly, goods and services or the image of a person selling the goods or providing the services. 11) Data processing official means any physical person or corporate body, be it public or private, any other body or association which, on its own or jointly with others, takes the decision to gather and process personal data and determine the objective of the said processing. 12) Sub-contractor means any physical person or corporate body, be it public or private, other body or association which processes data on behalf of the data processing official. 13) Third party means any physical person or corporate body, be it public or private, any other body or association other than the person concerned, the data processing official, the sub-contractor and persons entitled to process data under the direct authority of the data processing official or sub-contractor. 14) Personal data processing means any operation or set of operations conducted or with or without the aid of automated or unautomated procedures and applicable to data, such as gathering, exploitation, registration, organization, conservation, adaptation, modification, extraction, safeguarding, copying, consultation, utilization, communication through transmission, dissemination or any other form of circulation, exposure or interconnection, as well as the interlocking, ciphering, deletion or destruction of personal data. Section II: Legal framework for personal data protection Chapter 1: Objectives of this Convention with respect to personal data Article II – 2: AU Draft0 010111